Places Nicola B Wants to Go

This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.

The rocks of a certain area of Butte, Montana give off a musical ring when hit.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

For over 80 years, Mayan ruins stood proudly in a most unlikely location.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.